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Seanad: EU-US Agreement: Motion (4 Jul 2007)

Brendan Ryan: ...possibility of a threat to the citizens of Europe from anybody based in the United States. The United States had Congressmen who yahooed, so to speak, along with representatives of the provisional IRA when we were at the receiving end of IRA terrorism. When we were at the receiving end of IRA terrorism there were members of the United States Congress who ignored that fact and turned them...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...around, visit their homes and pick them up. I would regard the threat of people such as those who carried out this morning's killings to the way we live in this country as worse than the Provisional IRA, as their actions are based entirely on self-centred and brutal greed, without any spark of ideal. That is not to explain or dilute anything done by subversives in this country. The threat...

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2006: Second Stage (22 Nov 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...to carry out such actions than to make exceptions for certain people with a role in the legislative process. I went through four sets of double doors to reach the platform from which I addressed IRA prisoners one week and Irish Republican Socialist Party, IRSP, or Irish National Liberation Army, INLA, prisoners the next.

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...into an alliance with the EU and the US which has told the elected Government of the Palestinian territories that it must do what they have told it to do. When a ceasefire was declared by the IRA in 1994, we asked only that it be a permanent ceasefire. We did not tell Sinn Féin that first it had to recognise the legitimacy of Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland. We knew it would...

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...our peace process. In 1994 our Government had only one condition, namely, a permanent ceasefire. I often discussed this with the then Taoiseach, who had wonderful practical insights. The Provisional IRA attempted to fudge this by making it a three, six or nine month ceasefire but the Taoiseach continued to say "No". He did not then demand from it what was accomplished last July, namely, an...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements. (2 Feb 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...perturbed by the suggestions of intelligence gathering. I have asked more than once, both in the House and at British-Irish Interparliamentary Body meetings, about the current function of the IRA. While I do not wish to suggest that it should formally make some announcement to the effect that it is winding up, I would like someone from Sinn Féin to explain its function. If its function is...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...resources or we do not have the will to give the same attention to the movement of these people that was correctly given to people who were even suspected of having connections with the Provisional IRA. Could we have a debate at some stage on the property boom in this country, in particular on the impact it is having on people's ability to find somewhere to live? What prompts me to make...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements. (6 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...in violence against anyone, while the other, unfortunately, took a different view. Like everyone else, I accept the validity of the decommissioning, which was a sincere effort on the part of the IRA. I accept that there may well be stragglers. I accept the word of the witnesses and congratulate them on their work. I acknowledge that we are moving on and recognise that some people might...

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...or would even contemplate so doing, whether in the political arena or outside. Their ambivalence is crystallised in the unbelievable denial of the Sinn Féin leader that he was ever a member of the IRA. How can we have a political party led by somebody who says something that is so much at variance with the conviction of everybody in politics, and everyone I know outside politics who lives...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: This House has stood firmly behind the family and friends of the late Robert McCartney. Yesterday it was stated on RTE that the family insisted Mr. McCartney was killed by the Provisional IRA. Today it was stated on RTE that Mr. McCartney was alleged to have been killed by members of the Provisional IRA. Robert McCartney was murdered by members of the IRA. It is not an allegation made on the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is worth noting that not only are the McCartney sisters seeking justice but they have already prevented three murders through their refusal to accept the route offered to them by the Provisional IRA. They have given an example to many through their ability to see the difference between justice and revenge, a distinction some are unable to make. Their behaviour is a salutary lesson to many....

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...powerless is an abuse of a talent somebody has the good fortune to have. On the question of what people write, I wish to quote some things that have been written. If somebody in this House said "the IRA is throwing down a gauntlet to the Irish establishment" or that "Bertie Ahern has probably pushed the process over the edge by throwing his lot in with the Northern Special Branch and the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...the door is still open to them to find a way out of the cul-de-sac in which they find themselves. Beyond that, I do not propose to take up Senators' time discussing the nonsensical rhetoric of the IRA statement to which we have become accustomed. I will relate a lovely positive little story from Belfast about St. Mary's Training College camogie team, which is training at night in Linfield...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Peace Process: Motion. (15 Dec 2004)

Brendan Ryan: ...political disagreement and the fundamental moral gulf that separates us from a political organisation that engaged in a campaign of violence that did not have any moral or political basis? The IRA is not the ANC or any of the liberation movements which I have supported throughout my political career. Its members were never in the situation in which Nelson Mandela found himself in South...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2004)

Brendan Ryan: ...that there is one exception to everything we have said here which remains in secret. I share Senator Finucane's view. We must ask if a great deal more failed to be done and if it is true that the IRA was not prepared to quantify what it had in its possession. A succession of questions has arisen. I am inclined to accept the Tánaiste's view that photographs were not the only problem. The...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Dec 2004)

Brendan Ryan: ..., we bit our lips and restrained ourselves in recent years because we thought there was a greater prize. Let us remember this, that what has been achieved now is an unequivocal position where if the IRA would only once and for all and forever go away, there is a guarantee that whoever wins elections in Northern Ireland, there will be power-sharing institutions. The message is clear...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Mar 2003)

Brendan Ryan: I know the difference between right and wrong and I am very happy to stand up and say so. I denounced the Provisional IRA in this House in language that could not be questioned. I will not be silent and let others do the same things just because they claim the cloak of respectability.

Seanad: Order of Business. (19 Dec 2002)

Brendan Ryan: ...'s newspapers of a leaked document – apparently an internal Government briefing on the Northern Ireland situation. Without going into detail, it apparently says, among other things, that the IRA is still recruiting new members in Northern Ireland. I do not wish to make an unrealistic demand for a debate on this as I know the House is adjourning for Christmas. However, it would be good if...